Author: Freedom Watch
(Washington, D.C., March 19, 2014). Today, Larry Klayman, a former federal Justice Department prosecutor and founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch (www.freedomwatchusa.org), announced the filing of a lawsuit (1:14-cv-00435) before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, charging Afghan President Hamid Karzai, his Afghan government, in concert with the terrorist group the Taliban and the terrorist designated country the Islamic Republic of Iran, with conspiring to shoot down a Chinook helicopter that carried 17 Navy SEALs, 5 special ops servicemen, 5 National Guardsmen and 3 Air Force members, on a mission code named Extortion 17. The…
Date: February 27, 2014 Time: 10:00 am Place: Rayburn Building Room 2154 PRESS CONFERENCE TO BE HELD ON THE INDEPENDENCE AVENUE EXIT OF RAYBURN BUILDING IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING HEARING. (February 25, 2014, Washington, D.C.) After months of speculation, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform announced that the hearing for the 30 U.S. Navy SEALs and other special ops who suspiciously died in a helicopter shoot-down in Afghanistan on a mission called Extortion 17 will take place February 27, 2014. The Committee has named the hearing “Afghanistan: Honoring the Heroes of Extortion 17.” Honoring these heroes means that the Committee…
(Washington, D.C., February 12, 2014). Today, after the news that Senator Rand Paul finally filed his class action lawsuit over NSA telephonic metadata surveillance, Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch, and a former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor had this to say: “Having already preliminarily enjoined President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, NSA Director Keith Alexander and the NSA itself from illegally accessing the telephonic metadata of nearly the entire U.S. citizenry (see Court Order of December 16, 2013 in Klayman v. Obama, 13-cv-851), with the Honorable Richard J. Leon ruling that the illegal acts are…
Place: District Court for the District of Columbia 3rd and Constitution Avenue, N.W. Courtroom 18 Time: 2:30 PM (Washington, D.C., January 31, 2014). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch and a former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, announced that the court which recently enjoyed the National Security Agency and other Government Defendants, including but not limited to President Barack Obama, from indiscriminately spying on the totality of the American people, will hold a hearing/status conference in case numbers 13-cv-851 and 13-cv-881 this Monday at 2:30 pm. Klayman has asked for the status conference to discuss…
(Washington, D.C., January 24, 2014). Today, Larry Klayman, a former U.S. Justice Department prosecutor, announced that he and the other plaintiffs in prior successful litigation (case no. 13-cv-851 and 881) against the NSA and other Government Defendants, including President Obama, have re-filed their class action demand in a new proceeding before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The new case which will be assigned to Judge Richard J. Leon as related, is the only class action lawsuit that has actually been filed against the NSA and other Government Defendants. It (case no. 14-cv-92) was filed to streamline…
(Washington, D.C., January 17, 2014). Larry Klayman, former Justice Department prosecutor and founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch and a plaintiff and pro se legal counsel in the landmark case of Klayman et. al. v. Obama et. al (Case no. 851), the lawsuit in DC federal court that resulted in a preliminary injunction concerning the NSA’s illegal spy program, first revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden, is available for comment and interview over the anticipated recommendations, which are expected to fall far short of bringing the program into constitutional compliance, by President Obama, currently scheduled for January 17, 2014.…
(Washington, D.C., January 3, 2014) Today, it has been mistakenly reported that Senator Rand Paul will be the first to file a class action lawsuit regarding the NSA’s spy program in the D.C. District Court as an individual, not as a U.S. Senator. This news comes just two weeks after the Honorable Judge Richard Leon ruled that the NSA’s dragnet collection of metadata of over 300 million Americans violates the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. But, Larry Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch, Freedom Watch and also a former Justice Department prosecutor, filed two class action lawsuits in June (13-cv-881,…
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(Washington, D.C., December 27, 2013). Today, ruling in ACLU v. Clapper, (13-cv-3994) federal Judge William H. Pauley III of the Southern District of New York found that the National Security Agency’s (“NSA”) program that spies on over 300 million Americans – the entire populous – is consistent with the U.S. Constitution and that “[t]his blunt tool only works because it collects everything.” His decision comes eleven days after federal Judge Richard J. Leon’s decision before the District Court for the District of Columbia in Klayman v. Obama (13-cv-881) ruled that the NSA’s spy program is “almost-Orwellian” and it violates the…